Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945)

Thomas Hunt Morgan
An American zoologist and geneticist, he won the Nobel prize for Physiology in 1930 for his work linking.
Chromosomes and heredity. His experiments with the fruit fly Drosophila showed that the genes,
the units of heredity, were carried on the chromosome.
He later showed that the position of the genes on the chromosome controlled inherited characteristics.


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